Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Webster Schott, a vice president of Hallmark (and a critic of some repute), "verse is still more popular than prose, by a margin of five to one. And human affection will outsell humor twenty to one." Still, it is humor that freshens the stale feast of Christmas messages. The wit, alas, is often insipid self-parody−I BRING YOU GREETINGS . . . THAT'S ALL, JUST GREETINGS. But when they are good, the funny cards exemplify the peculiarly American gift for one-line gags. "LEON! LEON!" sings a caroler, who hurriedly explains, "I MEAN NOEL! NOEL! (Sorry...
...Penn has to call on Pancho Micir, and it's just not the same. Coach Bob Blackman, who said that at practice his players remind him of "a bunch of frisky colts kicking up their heels," need only 94 points to have 300 for the season. Truly a feast for Dartmouth...
...what that means. Going organic poses another kind of problem, for that will mean that the Thanksgiving turkey must be imported from an organic farm for a dollar a pound. Even a formal wedding may nowadays be followed-to the dismay of hungry friends and relatives-with a feast of brown rice, nituke vegetables and Mu tea, ceremoniously prepared by the young bride herself...
...American Lag. There is a feast ahead in East-West trade, says Pisar, and he has written his book for those who want to partake of it. A Pole by birth, a survivor of Auschwitz, and a U.S. citizen by a special act of Congress, Pisar was a staff member of the Senate Foreign Trade Committee and later worked for the Kennedy Administration's trade task force. He wrote the proposals on East-West trade that became part of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act. Today, at 41, he is a Paris-based attorney whose clients include Borg Warner...
Since the opening of a splendid new theatre is a festive occasion, the following remarks about the performance will look like a death's head at a feast...